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Soham Chetan Shah

3×3 · top 8.4% of 284,439 all-time · competing since June 2015 · 2015SHAH16

Soham Chetan Shah has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 10.31, set at Pune Cube Open 2018, puts him in the top 8.4% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 948th in India. Until May 2007, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 11 competitions since June 2015, he has put 297 official solves on the record across six events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 14% around a typical one; 64% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 25.17 in June 2015 to 10.31, a 59% improvement. Soham has entered eleven competitions, more competitions than 93% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 8.4% of 284,439 all-time
10.31
signature single · Pune Cube Open 2018
297
official solves on the record
14%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 64% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingIndia
3×310.3114.16
top 8.4%948 / 20,018
Skewb4.8513.31
top 17.0%466 / 3,524
3×3 one-handed23.5426.92
top 30.2%1,106 / 4,516
2×24.646.31
top 34.7%3,144 / 12,146
Pyraminx9.6012.87
top 49.9%3,316 / 8,934
4×41:24.201:38.01
top 59.3%2,060 / 4,186

Percentile against all competitors ever ranked in each event, a fairer measure than raw rank, because the pools differ by a factor of ten.

The line so far

Pune Fall Open V2.0 2015: 25.17SCMU-Pune Fall Open V3.0 2015: 20.66SCMU 2016: 14.76Rubik's Cube Pune Open 2016: 13.59Polyhedra Open 2017: 12.58Indian Nationals 2017: 11.41SCMU 2017: 14.51Indian Nationals 2018: 10.83Pune Cube Open 2018: 10.31IISER Pune Cube Open 2019: 14.1510.3125.1721 Jun 201517 Mar 2019

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

Competitions

Reading this page: a single is one solve's time · an average is the middle three of five solves, best and worst discarded · a PB is a personal best · a DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · top X% compares against everyone ever ranked in that event, which is fairer than raw rank because event pools differ tenfold.

The circuit

The people whose scorecards keep turning up next to his.

Next targets

  • A sub-10 3×3 single — 21,172 people have one; it is 0.31 away.
  • A sub-4 Skewb single — 7,977 people have one; it is 0.85 away.

Targets move as he improves.